Thank you for your response. Things have got a lot worse.  I have registered and made an appointment for next week in response to your email and I hope it will be helpful.   Substance use combined with mental health challenges are difficult to navigate for any parent yet alone any child.    I know what my legal choices are. Ultimately parents or parenting have no 'right' or  legal standing. At some point in time I will seek to  rely upon the Family Court to protect my child, as the Court has done in the past.    I think parent's come to this place to vent, to seek support and advice and to warn.    I have the capactity to step back, it hurts, it goes against my instincts under the circumstances.   I don't wonder whether I am the only father or mother whom addressed consent and equality with thier child only to have thrown back at them?   Thanks                 ... View more